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Sad news - SNY no longer has tv coverage after 2024-25 season (merged)

I guess I should be happy that I have been streaming my tv for quite a few years now. I have been able to watch every SNY broadcast via the Fox app, using different streaming devices. The only UConn games that I have missed are the holiday tournaments on FloSports.
I am hoping that come next season, this doesn't change as I already am subscribed to Peacock and MAX, along with the other networks available on Hulu Live.
 
I'll take this over SNY any day. If some of the games end up on streaming networks, I'll either miss it or watch if it happens to get posted on YouTube later on.
 
Who is going to pay for announcers, camera crews, and their travel for every single Big East Conference game? Is NBC, Fox, or TNT going to consider it cost-effective to pay these expenses for every game, including UConn - Seton Hall, not to mention Seton Hall - Xavier? It's hard for me to see how the streaming revenue from games like this will cover the cost of production, even if the networks assume that some small number of fans will subscribe to their streaming services only because these games are available.

I think it is more likely that these national networks will have a first right of refusal on all Big East Conference games, and that if they are not interested in some of the games (because they cannot recover production costs), then hopefully those games will become available to others who can make a profit from advertising in local markets (either regular TV broadcast or streaming).

If the national networks get to cherry-pick the games that they want to broadcast or stream, but prevent other potential broadcasters from picking up the games that they leave by the wayside, then I don't think all games will be streamed -- although it is more likely that all UConn games will be available.
 
To amplify what I said in the previous post, the press release contains the following statement:

"The deal will include 65 regular season games per season and all BIG EAST Tournament games."

By my rough calculations, there are about 100 Big East Conference games played every year, not counting the BE Tournament. So a deal that covers 65 games only includes about two thirds of the games that are played. I am guessing that these national networks get the first choice about which games they wish to broadcast or stream, so they will determine which 65 games are in scope and which 35 games are out of scope.

If the other 35 games are outside the scope of the deal, does that mean that anyone who wants to broadcast them or stream them can do so? That would certainly provide an opening for SNY, unless it turns out that all 18 UConn games are among the 65 that are included in this new deal. That seems unlikely.

But it certainly seems clear that ALL Big East WBB conference games will not be streamed or broadcast under the scope of this deal.
 
JoePgh said:
To amplify what I said in the previous post, the press release contains the following statement:

"The deal will include 65 regular season games per season and all BIG EAST Tournament games."

By my rough calculations, there are about 100 Big East Conference games played every year, not counting the BE Tournament. So a deal that covers 65 games only includes about two thirds of the games that are played. I am guessing that these national networks get the first choice about which games they wish to broadcast or stream, so they will determine which 65 games are in scope and which 35 games are out of scope.
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Is the 65 all games or only WBB games?
 
I could see a local CT station picking up the home games not covered by a national network since UConn has already confirmed SNY is out after next season as a result of this new deal.
 
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Centerstream said:
Is the 65 all games or only WBB games?
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Assuming that the email that I received from "The Next" can be trusted, they are talking about 65 women's basketball games. Here is the fuller quotation from The Next (note, not from the press release itself):

"BIG EAST women’s basketball coverage will massively grow under this new arrangement. The media rights deal triples BIG EAST women's basketball coverage compared to its current agreement with FOX. The deal will include 65 regular season games per season and all BIG EAST Tournament games."
hoopsfan22 said:
I could see a local CT station picking up the home games not covered by a national network since UConn has already confirmed SNY is out after next season as a result of this new deal.
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That's certainly possible, but there is no reason why SNY itself can't bid for these games if it wishes to do so. I think that the UConn announcement referred to SNY's previous arrangement, which ends after next season, but does not necessarily close the door to some smaller SNY deal for a lesser number of games.
 
Nev said:
Agree 100% with what you wrote except all UCONN women basketball games will be telecast by Fox, NBC, or TNT. Some will be streamed. Hope you have a fat wallet if you want to watch all UCONN women basketball games starting in 2025-26. Back to listening to their games on free radio if you live in Conn. or paying for internet broadcasts when living out of state.
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What I'll miss most about having the games on cable was my ability to record them. I would start watching the recording about 30-45 minutes after the start of the game. Then I would fast forward through all the commercials. I'm sure a lot of other people did this too. You couldn't go on Chat though.
 
The nice thing about SNY is that they actually put effort into the production end of things. As someone who has watched way too much lower tier basketball on ESPN+, it’s usually the bare minimum and looks cheap (because it often is). I just want whoever picks up whatever’s left of UConn’s games actually makes it worthwhile.
 
Nev said:
Agree 100% with what you wrote except all UCONN women basketball games will be telecast by Fox, NBC, or TNT. Some will be streamed. Hope you have a fat wallet if you want to watch all UCONN women basketball games starting in 2025-26. Back to listening to their games on free radio if you live in Conn. or paying for internet broadcasts when living out of state.
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There’s still the Varsity app where you can listen to the game on the radio for free, don’t need to be local. I believe it’s the same for the UConn app (or at least used to be).

The Audacity app might be an option as well, though I’ve never tried it for UConn games. Right now I use it to listen to Yankees games when I’m traveling for work — beats paying MLB for crappy service.
 
maple said:
The nice thing about SNY is that they actually put effort into the production end of things. As someone who has watched way too much lower tier basketball on ESPN+, it’s usually the bare minimum and looks cheap (because it often is). I just want whoever picks up whatever’s left of UConn’s games actually makes it worthwhile.
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Yeah they were a big part of the media coverage that we got beyond just games. They supplied a lot of the practice footage for example and followed the team on excursions outside of Storrs and covered senior day. They did the Geno Show and the all-access shows. We're not going to get that anymore if SNY is ultimately cut out of the picture.
 
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Nev said:
Agree 100% with what you wrote except all UCONN women basketball games will be telecast by Fox, NBC, or TNT. Some will be streamed. Hope you have a fat wallet if you want to watch all UCONN women basketball games starting in 2025-26. Back to listening to their games on free radio if you live in Conn. or paying for internet broadcasts when living out of state.
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Not true! Fox ,NBC and TNT basic cable probably pay the same as SNY and Peacock $20 a year. Doesnt sound like a fat wallet too me!
 
Nev said:
This in Sunday's upcoming Don Amore's Hartford Courant sports column:

UConn women and Big East TV deal​

The six-year, $480 million deal the Big East signed with Fox, NBC and TNT will spell the eventual end for UConn women’s basketball on SNY, the New York cable station that has televised games since 2012. Nothing will change this year.

“UConn womens games will no longer be on SNY beginning with the 2025-26 season,” according to a UConn statement. “All games will instead air through one of the Big East partner networks. More information will be available at a later date.”
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I am crushed! I live in Los Angeles and when I discovered a few years ago that I could get SNY through a sports pak on Direct TV, I was in heaven. Getting to see every game in the season, even the non-competitive conference games? For a Husky junkie, what could be better. And now this?! Do you think Fox, NBC, etc will be showing St John's at UConn in mid February? I don't think so. So disappointing. Like others have said, it's the money, not the diehard fan, that wins out.
 
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Not true! Fox ,NBC and TNT basic cable probably pay the same as SNY and Peacock $20 a year. Doesnt sound like a fat wallet too me!
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Fans may also need to subscribe to MAX, which is the premium streaming service for TNT.
Just as Peacock is the premium streaming service for NBC.
 
Centerstream said:
Fans may also need to subscribe to MAX, which is the premium streaming service for TNT.
Just as Peacock is the premium streaming service for NBC.
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It's going to be like trying to watch your favorite baseball team. You need to have ESPN for the handful of Sunday night games, whatever your local RSN is that carries the bulk of the games NESN/YES or MLB.tv, Fox for Saturday night games, Apple TV for Friday night games, Prime for the games they pick up, and Peacock for the random Saturday afternoon games. The streaming world was supposed to make things better and cheaper, but it has done the opposite.
 
skidroe said:
I am crushed! I live in Los Angeles and when I discovered a few years ago that I could get SNY through a sports pak on Direct TV, I was in heaven. Getting to see every game in the season, even the non-competitive conference games? For a Husky junkie, what could be better. And now this?! Do you think Fox, NBC, etc will be showing St John's at UConn in mid February? I don't think so. So disappointing. Like others have said, it's the money, not the diehard fan, that wins out.
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I think if there were excess games they would have sold them to SNY. They haven't. That leads me to believe everything will be aired somewhere. It probably means that we will all have to subscribe to Peacock though.
 
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Centerstream said:
Fans may also need to subscribe to MAX, which is the premium streaming service for TNT.
Just as Peacock is the premium streaming service for NBC.
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max is going to cover the games that are on the tnt network,so no!
 
I hope that between Fox, NBC, and TNT, that they find room for Meg Culmo to do some in game color commentary and Kara Wolters to do some In Studio work. Sadly, I believe that Alan Bestwick and Gary Apple will be collateral damage during this transition.
 
I look forward to being able to see UConn without having to jump through hoops to watch it on SNY. Last year I couldn't watch any of the games televised on SNY live due to problems with the sign in process. Dish couldn't even straighten it out and they worked on it for at least a week. They discovered that someone had hijacked my feed and signed in using the wrong info and because of it I was locked out.
 
BEEFSTEWIE said:
Apparently confirmed today by the CT Insider. I wonder what will be come of Allen Bestwick, Meghan Culmo and Kara Wolters? (Gary Apple will most likely stay at SNY, due to his connection with the New York Mets)

www.ctinsider.com

UConn women's basketball will change TV homes in 2025. What fans need to know about the move from SNY

New York-based SNY has show UConn women's basketball games since 2012, but that will change with a new Big East media right deal in 2025.
www.ctinsider.com www.ctinsider.com
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Gotta love today's writers/editors, two misused words in the first paragraph (show vs shown and right vs rights). Makes me chomp at the bit to read the complete article.
About the article, I am guessing that Meghan and Kara have other sources of income. Same with Allen (auto racing broadcasts).
 
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my2cents said:
If you are going to miss Culmo, just have somebody say. "We need more moving without the ball", 30 times a game and you're good.
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She does the game and doesn’t go off on tangents like so many broadcasters on the major networks.
 
HuskyNan said:
the-boneyard.com

NBC, TNT Sports expected to broadcast Big East men’s, women’s basketball games this season

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5559347/2024/06/12/nbc-tnt-fox-big-east-basketball-broadcast/ Big East men’s and women’s college basketball is on the verge of adding new television partners as NBC Sports and TNT Sports are expected to join Fox Sports in presenting games beginning this season...
the-boneyard.com the-boneyard.com
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That's fantastic. With NBC at least I'll be able to get games on Peacock.
 
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